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Massive Task in London
For Blast Investigators

By

Jones HaydenThe Wall Street Journal Online

Updated July 8, 2005 7:01 a.m. ET

Investigators are at the beginning of the huge job of finding those behind Thursday's bus and subway bombings in London, which officials said this morning killed at least 50 people and injured 700 -- the British capital's bloodiest day since World War II.

Parallels immediately were drawn with the bombing of commuter trains in Madrid in 2004, which were carried out by al Qaeda-inspired terrorists. London's Underground and bus system were running near-normal service on most lines Friday, but there were fewer commuters than usual,...